Staff Writer Isabelle Watts recounts life as an English-speaking au pair in France, and explores the wide-ranging effects of cross-Channel attitudes to bilingualism.

Echoing her mother’s bittersweet, sociopolitical awareness, Rebecca Turner explores the beauty of Italy. Reflecting on what is broadcasted in film and photography, she ponders the harsh truth of Italy’s social and political reality, as well as the lack of awareness surrounding it.

Le donne silenziate: in this first instalment, Hannah Burfield focuses on the general background of unequal power dynamics within Italy. She expands on traditionalism, in anticipation of the 20th century emergence of feminism

“There’s no better way to encapsulate it: Mavi is pure, casual magic”: Anja Gogo discloses her fieldnotes of a gem worth discovering, from the Internet to the Internet.

Reflecting on Ferlito’s leave from gymnastics, Anja Gogo explores the two-faced nature of the sport, in line with the recent scandal reported by the Olympian athlete

Discussing a new dynamic of her relationship with Portugal, Portuguese editor Clementine Lussiana explores the complexity of having a home away from home.

Raphael Lasserson-Rossiter explores the many mishaps that come with employing the Cambridge version of foreign languages on a year abroad.

Tom Paterson looks to past and present to explore Vladimir Putin’s relationship with the Orthodox Church.